Into the Depths | The Sinking City walkthrough The Sinking City guide, walkthrough

Last update: 02 July 2019

On this page of our guide to The Sinking City we have prepared a walkthrough of Into the Depths main case. This is the last investigation within the main storyline, and it leads to the place where you choose the final ending of the game. But before that happens, Reed must find and examine three monoliths to get the missing pieces of the Seal.

• Preparations in hotel
• Central Monolith at the Church of St. Michael
• Coastal monolith
• Dive and search for the second seal fragment
• Monolith at the railway station
• Exploration of Stone Worshippers' Residence
• Return with full Seal to the Central Monolith
• Last dive
• Surviving hallucinations

Preparations in hotel

This case begins automatically after the completion of the Flying Phoenix investigation. At the beginning you have few clues at your disposal - The Final Step and The Seal of Cthygnaar.

You have to start from returning to Devil's Reef Hotel. Watch a cutscene on the ground floor of the hotel. In the room rented by Reed, you will find:

1. Different documents attached to the board on the wall - they differ depending on the previous choices and may include an additional cut-scene.
2. Notes on prophecy (The Prophecy, With My Notes). Open the Mind Palace. Combine clues I am the Seed and The Seed might not die - you will unlock deduction I might survive.
3. Log entry (Putting Everything Together).

Central Monolith at the Church of St. Michael

Central Monolith is located in the heart of the Advent district. You must reach the church marked on the picture above - St. Michael's Church. It's up on the hill, and before you go inside, look in the car with cans of gasoline.

Explore the interior of the Church:

1. Find ammunition and a container with a small loot.
2. Take a Cleanse Yourselves! note.
3. Lift the canister - the eye icon will appear at the lid.
4. Next to the altar, you can use the Eye's Mind. Find a place where you can see the event of the past - the ceremony of self-immolation.
5. Check (closed) entrance to the basement - there is a Warning Note.

Go to the second floor and go to Meryl, with whom you can talk about the Clues to Find the Monoliths. During the conversation, it is worth choosing the dialog option of frightening her with death in torment, so that she will refrain from the decision to self-immolate. This way you get the Damage Control trophy.

You can open the Mind Palace. Combine clues The Cycle will repeat and Cthygonnaar holds the Daughter. There will be two deductions to choose from - Restart the Cycle and save mankind and Restarting the Cycle is useless. Of course, this are just the thoughts of a hero, not a binding decision. Regardless of the selected conclusions, at the game's finale you may choose every ending.

Continue the exploration:

1. Search the container with the minor loot.
2. Take the Shopping List from your desk.
3. Come to the podium near a barrier. Take The Book of Holy Flame and A Key.
4. With the key, go to the basement entrance and open the door.
5. In the first room of the basement you will find a container with small loot, a trap and an interactive book on a desk.
6. Use Mind's Eye to find the wall-illusion. Match the symbols. Immediately after the disappearance of the wall fight with monsters and if necessary, get back to the stairs leading to the first floor.
7. In the second room of the basement search the chest with loot, inspect the bottle of laudanum and take the Dream Diary from a desk.
8. Near the suit you will find Priest's Records.
9. Take interest in the area from the attached image - use Mind's Eye and match the symbols. You will find an object in the form of tentacles, which is actually the missing first part of the seal (One Out of Three). Rotate the tentacle until the eye icon appears.

Stay in the basement and keep using the mind's eye. This time you need to find the illusion from the attached image. After the symbols merge, a log will appear. Take it and find the eye icon to open it - you will receive Father Nicholas' Instruction, First Part of Instructions and Second Part of Instructions. You have explored the Church in 100%.

Coastal monolith

This monolith is associated with First Part of Instructions that you obtained in St. Michael's Church. This is a verbal mystery that you need to solve in order to find a new area to explore.

Visit The Oakmont Chronicle, specifically its archive:

1. As evidence for the analysis, select the First Part of Instructions.
2. Select the Period category and then After the Flood.
3. Select People category and then Celebrities.
4. Select the Section category and then Articles and Interviews.

By correctly defining the investigation criteria, you will receive a note about Incredible Discoveries.

Analysis of the above document will allow you to find the Coastal Monolith - shown in the attached image. This is the eastern end of the world map, namely the end of Old Colony Street on the border between the Coverside and Grimhaven Bay. Explore the surroundings of the monolith:

1. Search the container with a small loot and check the scope.
2. Investigate the scuba diving equipment.
3. Find the a log with The Last Message.
4. Inspect the monolith to fix the missing piece of seal. Open the Mind Palace. Connect clues No sign of the Kayfinger and Kayfinger beneath the azure cloak - you will unlock a deduction called Dive to complete the Seal.

The surroundings of the monolith are already 100% explored. Activate the Mind's Eye and follow the appearing sign (omen) in the form of a flying creature. You will be led to House of Jimmy Price, which is just next door. The entrance to the building is closed, but in the place shown in the picture you can climb and reach the first floor of the house. Start exploring it:

1. Search 3 containers with small loot.
2. Pick up a Letter from a Relative.
3. Take a Newspaper Article.
4. Jump into the big hole in the floor to get to the ground floor.
5. Search the coffin with a small loot and inspect the closed red door.
6. Meet with Jimmy Price. He will give you the Set of Wooden Crosses and Fisherman's Key.
7. Use the key on the red door. In the new room, study the Fisherman's Farewell Note. The house was explored in 100%.
8. Interact with the scuba diving suit to put it on and dive.

Dive and search for the second seal fragment

Follow the route marked by the lamps and look out for the hot air. In addition, you will run into a single monster in the further part of the march - try to stay away from it and scare it away with a harpoon.

If you want to fulfill Jimmy's wish, you can locate 3 "mummified" corpses (example in the image). They are found on the route of the march, so you do not have to deviate from the main road to come across them. Press the interaction button at each corpse to leave a cross next to them.

Immediately after passing the third drowned man, reach the place shown in the picture. Activate the Mind's Eye and match symbols in order to eliminate the illusion. This will allow you to get the tentacle, which is the second fragment of the Seal (Two Out of Three). Reed will automatically return to the surface.

If you put crosses on bodies, talk to Jimmy price again. As a reward you will receive XP and a lot of ammunition for your weapons.

Monolith at the railway station

The Second Part of Instructions, which you received in the Church of St. Michael, is connected with this monolith. This is a verbal mystery that you need to solve in order to find a new area to explore.

Visit the Oakmont City Hall, specifically its archive:

1. Select the Second Part of Instructions as the proof for the analysis.
2. Select the Subjects category, then Citizens.
3. Select the Period category and then, After the Flood.
4. Select the Registry category and then Citizen Records.

With a proper setup, the criteria allow you to find information about Triplets Records.

Railway Station Monolith can be found on the border of the Shells and Salvation Harbor districts - as we have presented it in the above picture. This is the intersection of Salvation Road and Moorland Road.

Before you examine the monolith, we advise you to clean the abandoned railway station building of monsters. This will facilitate your further investigation.

First of all, you need to explore the area near the huge monolith:

1. Inspect the corpse with a necklace made from monolith's fragment. Rotate the necklace until the eye icon appears.
2. Look at the corpse with the eaten out facial fragment.
3. Inspect the damaged monolith.
4. Find on the ground a fragment of the monolith - it is shown in the above image. Rotate the boulder around, looking at the two different eye icons and activating two different Reed's comments.
5. Inspect the body of a giant monster near the exit of area with monolith.

Once you find all the traces, a blue cloud will appear, signaling the possibility of using the retrocognition. The correct sequence of events:

1. Men with picks, working on the monolith.
2. Suspicious sounds can be heard.
3. The appearance of monsters near the monolith.

You'll find that a group of fanatics (Stone Thieves) have been working on chopping off monolithic fragments. They managed to obtain a large boulder and left with it before the monsters appeared.

You can now climb up the barricades and reach the large field next to the abandoned railway station building. The first corpse you will find inside the destroyed building of the railway station.

Successive finds in this location are associated with a damaged car, shown in the picture, which was used to transport fragments of the monolith:

1. See the damaged wheel of the car.
2. Watch a corpse weighed down by a car.
3. Lift the log lying next to the head of the crushed person (image above). Watch the necklace and blood on the back of it. Open the diary and you will get a Stained Diary Page.

The monolith area has been explored in 100%.

Exploration of Stone Worshippers' Residence

Stone Worshippers' Residence is situated in the center of the Shells district. It is shown in the above picture and is a flooded fragment of Justice Street, between Inner Shine Street and Warren Road. You have to go there by boat, locate a place where you can go down to the pier and enter the building through a hole in the wall.

Engage in the study of the ground floor of the worshipper residence:

1. Look at the stone figure.
2. Watch a fragment of the monolith lying on a plate on a long table.
3. Stay in the same place. Launch Mind's Eye and find a place where you can watch the events of the past (the image above) - it is an unusual supper.
4. Watch small fragments of the monolith on the cutting table.
5. In the corner room there is a container with a small loot.

Go to the first floor of the building. The doors are closed, but you can look through the window to the left of them. Turn around and enter the blue cloud to begin the retrocognition. Here is the correct chronological order of events:

1. Fanatics put a big stone on the table and begin to "cut" it.
2. Fanatics sit down for a supper at a long table.
3. Fanatics take a large boulder on the floor and hide the key in one of the books.

You will find (Fate of the Monolith Shard) that a large boulder from the monolith was brought into the building. It was partially crushed into smaller pieces, and the largest piece was moved to the floor. Get interested in the book shown in the picture - it's located on the ground floor of the building. Look at it from all sides and take out A Key. Be careful on a sudden drop in mental health, if necessary, take a sedative.

Explore the floor of the building:

1. Search the containers with small loot.
2. Look for a large boulder with Mind's Eye. After the symbols converge, the illusion (above picture) disappears and you find the last tentacle, the third fragment of the Seal (Complete Seal of Cthygonnaar).
3. Open the Mind Palace. Combine clues Monolith worshippers have changed and A piece of Monolith you stolen - it will unlock a deduction called Transformed by the Monolith.
4. Stay on top of the floor and do a few optional steps. Use your Mind's Eye on one of the walls. The illusion will disappear and you may open a secret room. Find Stone Worshipper's Notes there. When you try to return to the ground floor, you will meet unexpected figures of stone. Activate the Mind's Eye to see a strange image.

Return with full Seal to the Central Monolith

Now you have to return to the central monolith, which is the St. Michael's Church. Go down to the basement and deal with last monsters.

Reach the place shown in the picture - it is a pedestal on which the "completed" Seal is placed.

Last dive

Allow the symbols to converge so you can unlock the passage and Reed will dive automatically. As you play this section, watch out for the hot air, the new underwater creature, and the tentacles that pop out of the bottom - run alongside them and use the harpoon to stun the monsters.

Follow the route marked by "green gates". In order to reach some of them, you need to jump to the lower parts of the bottom. In the final part of the campaign you will begin to experience hallucinations and quickly lose health points. Head towards the illuminated cave entrance shown in the picture and do not stop along the way.

Surviving hallucinations

Now you must pass through a series of locations where Reed will experience hallucinations. They can vary depending on the events that occurred during the game, and in particular who has died during your overall progress. You can, though you don't have to, watch the hallucinations. It is more important to observe the mental health bar again and to use sedatives after it is completely exhausted.

Not only the beginning is problematic here. Jump off the deck of the ship at the location showed in the image. As you experience the hallucination, you can create new entries in the Mind Palace:

1. Combine clues Cthygonnaar holds the Daughter and Monoliths are parts of Cthygonnaar - unlock will unlock a deduction called Monoliths touched by the Daughter. You can click on the questions marks and choose one of the two deductions (check the endings section of our guide).
2. Combine clues Previous Seeds died and The Cycle will repeat - this will unlock a Restarting the Cycle is suicide deduction. You can click on the question marks and preview one of the two conclusions (check the endings section of our guide).

You will be taken to a cave where you choose the ending of the game. Check the List of Endings page of our guide, where we have described all of them.